How to build and maintain your LinkedIn network

Welcome to the second post from our three-part series on how to become LinkedIn savvy! This post gives some tips and advice on how to build and maintain a LinkedIn network. These materials have been created by Sabrina Woods and additional handouts can be found at  www.sabrina-woods.com/linkedin.  Add to your connections  Invite past and current coworkers,… More How to build and maintain your LinkedIn network

Your 10-point check list for a savvy LinkedIn profile

Today we have the first of a three-part series on how to become LinkedIn savvy, starting with some top tips on how to get your profile looking its best! These materials have been created by Sabrina Woods and additional handouts can be found at  www.sabrina-woods.com/linkedin.  1. Get a professional headline (in 120 characters). See below for some examples and you can find more… More Your 10-point check list for a savvy LinkedIn profile

Get your LinkedIn Profile Sorted in Three Easy Steps!

We’ve got a guest post for you today from Mincho Vichev, MSci Biochemistry, and Masters Ambassador for the KCL Biochemistry Society, who kindly wrote up some tips from an event that ran on LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago. Thanks Mincho!  Senior Careers Consultant Sue Moseley revealed the three key steps to make your appearance on… More Get your LinkedIn Profile Sorted in Three Easy Steps!

Your Digital Footprint – Making or Breaking Your Job Application?

Written by Silje Undlien, Third Year War Studies undergraduate at King’s College London & Marketing Assistant at King’s Careers & Employability. If you’re job-hunting, social media can be a useful tool for networking and finding opportunities. In this day and age the ability to cultivate an online presence to your own benefit is key! But… More Your Digital Footprint – Making or Breaking Your Job Application?

Find Your Next Job With LinkedIn – Optimize Your Profile With a New Picture!

There are many times users struggle to understand what type of picture to use on LinkedIn. Facebook is the social forum where you can update photos from your study trips, share your snapchat memories from the previous night at KCLSU Waterfront Bar or your Instagram filtered photos from strolling around the beach on holiday. We… More Find Your Next Job With LinkedIn – Optimize Your Profile With a New Picture!

#SELFIE

No, you cannot use that Walden IG filter photo of you on a night out with your friends cropped out for LinkedIn. It just doesn’t work. LinkedIn is not Instagram and though people may act like it, it is not Facebook either. Yes, it is a social media platform – but it is a professional… More #SELFIE

All I do is Win, Win, Win

Summer, summer, summer time…spent in the Maughan. Or New Hunt’s House. Sometimes Frankin-Wilkins and if I’m feeling adventurous outside with the sun warming my face, a book in one hand, covered in post-it notes and lost in my research. This is it. The pièce de résistance of your time spent at King’s. Everything we’ve been… More All I do is Win, Win, Win